Last week, BlackBerry launched two new smartphones based on its new platform BlackBerry 10 - Z10 and Q10. Of the duo, Z10 with a full touchscreen display is the flagship smartphone, which being compared widely with other smartphone kings based on Android, iOS and Windows Phone 8 platforms.

Z10 comes running on BlackBerry 10 OS, which is being referred as a true multitasking system, and it is centered around touch gestures. Other specifications include 4.2-inch WXGA touchscreen with 1280 X 768 pixels of resolution, and 365ppi pixel density, a dual-core Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm clocked at 1.5GHz, accompanied with 2 gigabytes of RAM. Coming to camera segment, RIM has thrown an 8 megapixel camera with TimeShift (Scalado-powered tech) mode, which helps you to record 1080p HD videos, and there is also 2 megapixel shooter on front side for taking care all of your video chat needs in high-definition.

Further, BlackBerry Z10 houses 16GB of internal storage, and 32GB memory expandable support via SD card slot, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC W-Fi a/b/g/n, microUSB and microHDMI ports, an advanced touchscreen keyboard, and has access to 17,000 applications on BlackBerry World (including the most popular Skype, Angry Birds, WhatsApp, Where's My Water, Amazon Kindle, SoundHound, Rdio and many more.) And of course, it has 4G LTE connectivity, which is one of the main selling points.

Observing the current market trends, it is evident that BlackBerry Z10 will face considerable obstacles on their respective paths - Android, iOS and Windows Phone 8 based smartphone offerings, which might put the handset in an odd position. Hence lets us go through the slideshow to find out which are the fierce rivals which will obstruct the path of the sizzling new handset in the smartphone arena and will prove to be eligible alternatives to BlackBerry Z10.

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